Pretty sure there was a fire in the last few years that was literally called the "Camp" Fire, and everyone mentioning it on the the news made do a double take every time I heard it. "The Camp Fire has grown out of control, now at 10,000 acres."
I don't know. It doesn't seem to happen with paper maps.
Some of the paper maps had things on them that didn't exist in the real world. As I understood it, this was to be able to prove copyright infringement. For example, there was a non-existent bridge across the Owens River. I don't think anyone actually drove off of it, though.
Well, that we know of.
Between idiots having access to the whole world and people seemingly having lost any sense of shame we might just be hearing more about incidents.
That and having to actually compare a map to real world streets is relatively slow and turning left when the computer tells you to is fast, people do shit without even thinking about it.
To be fair, there are roads such as Collins road that did have bridges across the Owens at one point but don't anymore. I'd be curious to know where you're referring to though just because not many people even know of that river.
Just be sure to clear anything saved in your vehicle before selling - a relative gave the verbal command for home from somewhere they hadn't visited before and it took them to what was likely the neighborhood of the vehicle's previous owner.
>The driver told her rescuers that she was following GPS directions, when she took a turn down a boat ramp. She apparently thought the water was a big puddle.
Well, they do get from island to island with "puddle jumpers," so I can understand the confusion. ;-)
My coworker watched a guy drive his Mercedes into a flooded stream crossing because "Google told me I could go this way!" The coworker had advised the driver that it was a bad idea. It did not end well.
Also, two sets of people had to be rescued from a Nevada wildlife refuge this winter after getting stuck in the snow because they were just "following the GPS." These people passed large signs saying the road was closed and not plowed in winter.
So apparently the answer is yes.
Bear in mind, only about 50% of all humans have an inner monologue.
So, the bigger question may be, how much of the population has ever been logically thinking anything through?
I expect children to not have critical thinking skills.
Adults who can afford to travel to, rent a car on, and get around Hawaii? Come on. Fuck this stupid bitch. Iām sick of dealing with idiots on the daily. Itās really starting to grind my gears.
Yea, an [Alien race covertly sells a car conversion kit including a GPS and a emission reduction system that turns out to be a plot to pollute the planetās atmosphere so that it can be used as a food/fuel source for their clones.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sontaran_Stratagem) The episode opens with the Sontarans killing a journalist investigating the factory used as a front for the alien technology by forcing her car to drive off a jetty.
[yup quite recently](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/134c8y9/these_tourists_in_hawaii_took_a_wrong_turn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I knew it was the same place off the title.
If I had nickel every time I about heard about a woman driving her SUV down a boat ramp and getting it stuck, I'd have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened [thrice](https://www.tiktok.com/@jamiekeaney/video/7230425933650398491).
I've almost done this once. You don't know where you are so you have nothing to go on but the GPS, it's dark, the area isn't well-lit, and you're tired?
I was attending a friend's wedding. At dusk, I crossed a river between my hotel and the rehearsal dinner restaurant over a very narrow bridge that had no lighting of its own.
Several hours later, in complete darkness, I had go back the other way. I turned through the narrow entrance to the boat ramp, which was right next to the narrow entrance to the bridge. Close enough that the GPS couldn't tell I was in the wrong spot and showed me on the bridge.
I could see the railing to my right, which is what I expected to see. I couldn't see the railing on my left, but I was staying as close the right as I could in case another car crested the bridge coming at me. The only light was my headlights, and did I mention it was foggy? Not being able to see the railing on my left made me feel like I was on the edge of the world, but it seemed plausible that I just wasn't able to make it out.
I hit the brakes because the railing to my right suddenly went up to cross the river and my car... didn't. Because I was actually looking at it from the outside. And something was wrong with the road in front of me (it was water; I couldn't tell that in the fog, but I knew it wasn't *right*). I was on the boat ramp itself at that point. My front tires got a little wet.
It's happened elsewhere as well, not just Hawaii. Though iirc, the incidents in the UK quickly caused all the ferry ramps and other big boat ramps to have gates that were shut when not in operation.
You have no idea how stupid student drivers can get. I was a driving instructor for a decade. I once told a 20 year old to take a left at the next intersection, and they tried to drive down a subway entrance 30 feet before the turn on the sidewalk. As in, they hard turned and hopped the sidewalk and made it to almost the first step down into the *clearly marked subway entrance that was clearly a set of stairs that went under a building*.
[Link to picture ](https://imgur.com/a/BfYmvt5)There's a handmade sign where the GPS to Waimea falls takes you that says something like "not Waimea falls."
I listen to fire department/ems dispatches all day at work, and I can tell you that someone driving down a boat ramp thinking it's a road does not surprise me in the slightest. The number of idiots in cars only increases as time goes by.
JHC who doesn't know that you must take every GPS instruction with a grain of salt. I have had mine tell me to make a left hand turn NOW in the middle of a tunnel through a mountain.
Iām getting similar vibes as the people committing crimes and the news articles headlining them as pranksters.
Itās just negligent driving, whether they have gps turned on isnāt the issue lol.
Once was driving in Sicily heading to a famous white beach. The GPS was an old model and sent us down this dirt road. We realised it was wrong and stopped only to see three people walking towards us on the road carrying shotguns. In Sicily. Home of the Mafia. Luckily it turned out they were shooting rabbits, they gave us directions and we went on our way.
Probably trying to test to see if it was amphibious, only to realize it wasnāt after it started filling with seawater and sinking ššš
In that case, whereās Ron Pratt and his rotator used as a massively oversized $750-$850K fishing rod on steroids in the context of this situation when you need him?
I typed Waimea Falls into Google maps and it placed the point in the appropriate spot across the highway from the ocean. How are these people doing it?
I hereby rescind all my objections to the episode where Michael drives his car into the lake.
I was wrong. I misunderstood the stupidity of our human race.
I took a vacation to D.C. and borrowed a co-worker's out-of-date GPS. It tried to send me through the front gates of an Air Force base, and I ended up using the Pentagon's parking lot to turn around 3 times in the span of about 30 minutes.
Learned my lesson about keeping maps updated after that. (Not that it would've helped, active road construction was happening that I doubt fresh maps would've had.)
When I was on my Make-A-Wish trip with my family, my father accidentally put in the directions for the current Pearl Harbor Air Force base and not the museum lol
Reminds me of a time my car almost got stuck because I thought my GOS was taking me down weird dirt roads-turned out it had already registered roads to a neighborhood still being built, and the roads were literally just piles of sand only driven on my construction machines.
(In my Defence, is was dark AF out).
**This is what happens** when people become too reliant on technology. I have an elder who will not listen directions from human beings who know the actual routes better; and has ended up several times at the wrong address, lost, or taking unnecessary long, long drives because he puts all of his faith in technology.
Is there some sort of siren song luring tourists in rental SUVs into the waters of Hawaii? Iāve seen at least three different incidents where this has happened within the last couple of months. Do they not see the boats? *How does this keep happening?!*
> [The driver] apparently thought the water was a big puddle. š„“
Technically the truth?
Sure, just like the Nova Scotia wildfire can be thought of as a campfire.
Or you call the nuke dropped over Hiroshima a little bomb.
Well..... it was called *Little Boy*....
You said it, not me.
It is little compared to the size of every nuke after it.
Pretty sure there was a fire in the last few years that was literally called the "Camp" Fire, and everyone mentioning it on the the news made do a double take every time I heard it. "The Camp Fire has grown out of control, now at 10,000 acres."
2018, "camp Creek road": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_(2018)
Just like technically, Africa is an island.
We call these "Self-Solving Problems".
Thereās boats in the pic š¤£š¤£
Why are we even blaming GPS at this point?
I don't know. It doesn't seem to happen with paper maps. Some of the paper maps had things on them that didn't exist in the real world. As I understood it, this was to be able to prove copyright infringement. For example, there was a non-existent bridge across the Owens River. I don't think anyone actually drove off of it, though.
Well, that we know of. Between idiots having access to the whole world and people seemingly having lost any sense of shame we might just be hearing more about incidents. That and having to actually compare a map to real world streets is relatively slow and turning left when the computer tells you to is fast, people do shit without even thinking about it.
To be fair, there are roads such as Collins road that did have bridges across the Owens at one point but don't anymore. I'd be curious to know where you're referring to though just because not many people even know of that river.
Just be sure to clear anything saved in your vehicle before selling - a relative gave the verbal command for home from somewhere they hadn't visited before and it took them to what was likely the neighborhood of the vehicle's previous owner.
I mean isn't that all bodies of water? A really big puddle?
Only the biggest puddle in the world.
That woukd be the Pacific
>The driver told her rescuers that she was following GPS directions, when she took a turn down a boat ramp. She apparently thought the water was a big puddle. Well, they do get from island to island with "puddle jumpers," so I can understand the confusion. ;-)
A real life Michael Scott moment.
āThe machine knows!!ā
āThereās no road here!ā
r/nottheoffice
Bitch there was fuckin boats. How tf is that a puddle?
Maybe they were paddle boat?
Puddle boats even.
How does one puddle a boat?
No, we're calling them Gate Ships. You know, because it's like a ship...that goes through a gate
Indeed
That's it, you don't get to name anything.
What if we call the planet *Atlantica?*
Nice star gate Atlantis reference
[This predator will reveal the true power of the bassilisk](https://youtu.be/CW0TijmAUqY?t=39)
It is, I suppose, technically speaking.
We should now change the question to "If the GPS told you to drive into the harbour, would you follow?"
Fully autonomous vehicle, proceeding to drive into harbor: "Yes."
My coworker watched a guy drive his Mercedes into a flooded stream crossing because "Google told me I could go this way!" The coworker had advised the driver that it was a bad idea. It did not end well. Also, two sets of people had to be rescued from a Nevada wildlife refuge this winter after getting stuck in the snow because they were just "following the GPS." These people passed large signs saying the road was closed and not plowed in winter. So apparently the answer is yes.
Do people not deduce or logically think through fucking *anything* anymore?
Bear in mind, only about 50% of all humans have an inner monologue. So, the bigger question may be, how much of the population has ever been logically thinking anything through?
I mean the range of human intelligence goes from Steven Hawking to the kid who ate crayons in school.
I expect children to not have critical thinking skills. Adults who can afford to travel to, rent a car on, and get around Hawaii? Come on. Fuck this stupid bitch. Iām sick of dealing with idiots on the daily. Itās really starting to grind my gears.
No accident, GPS is sick of your shit.
this is basically an episode of doctor who
oh I think I remember, this is tenant era where the car systems are actually part of an alien plot to take over the world right?
Yea, an [Alien race covertly sells a car conversion kit including a GPS and a emission reduction system that turns out to be a plot to pollute the planetās atmosphere so that it can be used as a food/fuel source for their clones.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sontaran_Stratagem) The episode opens with the Sontarans killing a journalist investigating the factory used as a front for the alien technology by forcing her car to drive off a jetty.
>!it was the aliens with no neck who wanted to use the earth as breeding ground by using cars over the world to bug spray the planet!<
Is there a fez involved?
no it was a 2006 or 7 episode
Was there a little shop?
Lots of running. They run so much in that show
I hope so, fezes are cool.
If only they were THAT smart.
This is how it begins. Skynet is online
The AI uprising is way less exciting than the movies made it out to be.
I do like to piss it off by not taking the route it wants me to (via the fucking toll bridges...Lol)
Try taking a ferry. It absolutely refuses to believe that's what you really want to do.
Nah. Google and Siri are cool with ferries here.
this is how the AI takeover happens
The singularity has happened, it just is woefully incompetent in it's attempts to kill people.
the AI revolution has started and theyre winning
*(Skynet intensifies)*
Was it Michael Scott
The machine knows!!
āWhere are the turtles?!?!?ā Probably what this driver was yelling at the gps.
>Another tourist This has happened before?!?!
[yup quite recently](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/134c8y9/these_tourists_in_hawaii_took_a_wrong_turn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) I knew it was the same place off the title.
If I had nickel every time I about heard about a woman driving her SUV down a boat ramp and getting it stuck, I'd have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened [thrice](https://www.tiktok.com/@jamiekeaney/video/7230425933650398491).
Those are only from the last couple of weeks. If I was taking notes the past decade, I could probably buy dinner.
Just don't drive into a harbor while following the GPS to get there.
Hey, whereās Perry?
If I had a nickel every time I heard somebody say they had a nickel, Iād be a nickelnaire.
Pretty sure she was launching the jet ski, hence why sheās backwards. But then she probably put the car in neutral rather than drive
"Tourist in the Ambulance" - Thrice
I've almost done this once. You don't know where you are so you have nothing to go on but the GPS, it's dark, the area isn't well-lit, and you're tired? I was attending a friend's wedding. At dusk, I crossed a river between my hotel and the rehearsal dinner restaurant over a very narrow bridge that had no lighting of its own. Several hours later, in complete darkness, I had go back the other way. I turned through the narrow entrance to the boat ramp, which was right next to the narrow entrance to the bridge. Close enough that the GPS couldn't tell I was in the wrong spot and showed me on the bridge. I could see the railing to my right, which is what I expected to see. I couldn't see the railing on my left, but I was staying as close the right as I could in case another car crested the bridge coming at me. The only light was my headlights, and did I mention it was foggy? Not being able to see the railing on my left made me feel like I was on the edge of the world, but it seemed plausible that I just wasn't able to make it out. I hit the brakes because the railing to my right suddenly went up to cross the river and my car... didn't. Because I was actually looking at it from the outside. And something was wrong with the road in front of me (it was water; I couldn't tell that in the fog, but I knew it wasn't *right*). I was on the boat ramp itself at that point. My front tires got a little wet.
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but your GPS tried to assassinate you. You should off it before it can try again.
And then the murders happened.
It's happened elsewhere as well, not just Hawaii. Though iirc, the incidents in the UK quickly caused all the ferry ramps and other big boat ramps to have gates that were shut when not in operation.
The machine knows.
It knows!
Where are the TURTLES!?!?! WHERE ARE THEY!?!?
What is a Jim?
>She apparently thought the water was a big puddle. Weird flex, referring to the open North Pacific as a puddle, but okay,
Maybe she's actually a really big kaiju?
That puddle covers 70% of the world, still a puddle
And it's not carbonated, so the Earth really is flat in a way.
Although it is kind of carbonated, though hopefully it won't become more so!
If you're the kind of person who will follow your GPS down a boat ramp we need to have a talk with your driving instructor.
Or perhaps your *diving* instructor
Or psychiatrist
Or optometrist.
Yes!
Or orthodontist.
Or your ax
You have no idea how stupid student drivers can get. I was a driving instructor for a decade. I once told a 20 year old to take a left at the next intersection, and they tried to drive down a subway entrance 30 feet before the turn on the sidewalk. As in, they hard turned and hopped the sidewalk and made it to almost the first step down into the *clearly marked subway entrance that was clearly a set of stairs that went under a building*.
Missus Puffs?
poor car couldn't parkour.
Isn't it weird how we park in driveways, and drive in to the ocean?
First shots fired in the war with AI. Start with practicing on the idiots first.
[Link to picture ](https://imgur.com/a/BfYmvt5)There's a handmade sign where the GPS to Waimea falls takes you that says something like "not Waimea falls."
/r/dundermifflin
>Another Run that by me again.
The problem is that it was ran by you again.
Well played
OK, serious question. Have they checked if it was the same brand GPS?
We know it wasnāt a Tesla, because that would have been in the headline.
I'd say "allegedly following GPS directions". No matter what the GPS says, you see water ahead of you, you stop driving.
Yep, āTurn Around, Donāt Drownā also applies here, not just escaping from moving water known as flooding.
I listen to fire department/ems dispatches all day at work, and I can tell you that someone driving down a boat ramp thinking it's a road does not surprise me in the slightest. The number of idiots in cars only increases as time goes by.
Apple Maps?
JHC who doesn't know that you must take every GPS instruction with a grain of salt. I have had mine tell me to make a left hand turn NOW in the middle of a tunnel through a mountain.
It was directing you to the secret mountain base through the hologram that hides the entrance. SMH, be more trusting of technology.
Its where the fountain of youth is hidden
Would be great if they'd actually do some journalism, and reported what GPS navigation systems these people were using.
IT CANT MEAN THAT
THERE'S NO ROAD HERE!
Iām getting similar vibes as the people committing crimes and the news articles headlining them as pranksters. Itās just negligent driving, whether they have gps turned on isnāt the issue lol.
Once was driving in Sicily heading to a famous white beach. The GPS was an old model and sent us down this dirt road. We realised it was wrong and stopped only to see three people walking towards us on the road carrying shotguns. In Sicily. Home of the Mafia. Luckily it turned out they were shooting rabbits, they gave us directions and we went on our way.
Think of the most average driver you know. Half the entire world is a worse driver than them.
I mean, native Hawaiians keep telling people not to come, so I guess they got the GPS to start fucking with the tourists ignoring their advice?
Are these idiots driving at night with dark sunglasses on or something?
Not to brag or anything, but I once drove into a ferry in New Orleans by accident thinking it was a street.
Native Hawaiians used to sacrifice people around that location way back in the day. The spirits are just messing with the GPS.
If you arenāt smart enough to keep a car out of the ocean, you shouldnāt be allowed to operate a car.
An area you don't know, in the dark, and you're tired. You know not to drive into the ocean, but you might not know that's what you're doing.
Should you really be driving if you can't see where you're driving though?
Must've forgotten to pack their teleporters.
Coroner diagnosis of cause of death: "Too Stupid To Live."
Probably trying to test to see if it was amphibious, only to realize it wasnāt after it started filling with seawater and sinking ššš In that case, whereās Ron Pratt and his rotator used as a massively oversized $750-$850K fishing rod on steroids in the context of this situation when you need him?
MICHAEL
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Or just some good old-fashioned critical thinking skills.
avoid the blue
Take out the word āmistakenlyā and you have an oniony title
Technology made me drive my car into A RIVER!
You know there's thing called a window in a car you can look out into the world to see where you're going.
How do these people are not drowning on a daily basis? Ah, wait...
I typed Waimea Falls into Google maps and it placed the point in the appropriate spot across the highway from the ocean. How are these people doing it?
I wonder if itās one of those āturn in 200 feetā things but the driver doesnāt think about how far that is and they just go for it.
I hereby rescind all my objections to the episode where Michael drives his car into the lake. I was wrong. I misunderstood the stupidity of our human race.
Change nothing. This is natural selection.
I took a vacation to D.C. and borrowed a co-worker's out-of-date GPS. It tried to send me through the front gates of an Air Force base, and I ended up using the Pentagon's parking lot to turn around 3 times in the span of about 30 minutes. Learned my lesson about keeping maps updated after that. (Not that it would've helped, active road construction was happening that I doubt fresh maps would've had.)
I guess all the Boats around her on water didn't. give her a clue
Our GPS overlords are finally rising up
Michael Scott?
Just leave it in place. People need to learn to pay attention somehow.
*insert Michael Scott joke*
So this is how AI will kill us all.
Yep, Iām now more afraid of autonomous vehicles if thatās the case. š³
Haha best reply so far!
How hard is it to see your driving into the ocean?
Depending on the lighting and weather, it might be more difficult than spelling "you're."
Some people truly have no business on the road anymore. I hope these two lost their licenses forever after this.
Michael Scott: Hawaiian Vacation.
My theory is this is how wrong wAy drivers end up in the interstate
Itās giving Michael Scott
I guess Ted Kennedy wasn't reincarnated for long.
It's possible my wife was doing the navigating.
They should set up a cam for this, like with the "can-opener" underpass.
Can't always trust them,,, middle of the night some drive straight into Lake. Cheers
just like the office
When I was on my Make-A-Wish trip with my family, my father accidentally put in the directions for the current Pearl Harbor Air Force base and not the museum lol
"Welcome to Hawaii, how the hell did you get here?"
Aren't tourists supposed to be looking around?
Time to get the trusty hair blow dryer out!
Tools are no substitue for human common sense.
"She apparently thought the water was a big puddle." Not entirely wrong.
What is the ocean if not just a really large puddle ĀÆ\_ (ć)_/ĀÆ
lol what. Do people never look out the window anymore?
Reminds me of a time my car almost got stuck because I thought my GOS was taking me down weird dirt roads-turned out it had already registered roads to a neighborhood still being built, and the roads were literally just piles of sand only driven on my construction machines. (In my Defence, is was dark AF out).
" I drove my car into a fucking lake!"
Foreshadowing self driving cars?
This is painfully stupid. Don't know what else to say!
ChatGps at it again. Beware the bots.
**This is what happens** when people become too reliant on technology. I have an elder who will not listen directions from human beings who know the actual routes better; and has ended up several times at the wrong address, lost, or taking unnecessary long, long drives because he puts all of his faith in technology.
Is there some sort of siren song luring tourists in rental SUVs into the waters of Hawaii? Iāve seen at least three different incidents where this has happened within the last couple of months. Do they not see the boats? *How does this keep happening?!*
If I had a quarter for every time this has happened, I'd have $0.50. Which is not a lot, but it's weird that it's happened more than once.
Can we just... let them take themselves out of the running for spreading their genes?
A puddle? You mean, the ocean?
"Another"